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On December 2008 elotto brought the Spanish National lottery to it’s product range, affording players globally a vastly bettered chance of sharing in this enormous Spanish lotto prize fund.

If this is the first time you have come across the Spanish Lotto, allow me to highlight just how measurable this lotto is to the big majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lottery has been a national obsession in Spain for a long time with tremendous involvement generated by the Christmas lottery draw each year. Believe it or not ninety-eight per cent of the population play this Spanish National lotto each Christmas.

There are a couple of central reasons why lot’s of Spanish nationals join in the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw.

First, there is the incentive of the largest lottery prize fund of any world-wide lottery game – 2.20 Billion Euros! Secondly, there are more than thirteen thousand cash prizes to be won. Last, the probability of picking up a money prize in the Christmas draw is a highly achievable – one : six.

With the amount of interest that’s afforded to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, a good deal of individuals are unaware that there is five additional Spanish Lottery draws annually as well. These games take place in March, May, July, January and November. Despite the fact that these five games don’t feature the massive prize fund of the Christmas lottery draw, they are sizable however, ranging from 78 million Euros to 655 million Euros. Also, these games offer virtually 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas lotto draw and betting odds of picking up a money prize of an impressive 1 : 3.

The Christmas Spanish lottery operates in an unusual way to almost all other world lotteries. A whole lotto ticket ‘billete’ is really expensive, costing two hundred Euros. However, these lotto tickets are divided up into 10 ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing 20 Euros apiece.

When purchasing your lotto tickets you have the option of purchasing 1 decimo, a complete ticket, or a part of a ticket. If you don’t purchase the full ticket, somebody else will buy the remainder of your ticket. E.g., when you purchase 2 decimos, somebody else purchases three decimos and somebody else purchases 5 and your ticket wins one thousand Euros, and then you will collect 200 Euros, three hundred Euros and five hundred Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of buying an entire lottery ticket, it is not unusual for families and friends to united their lotto money and each purchase a separate ‘decimo’ (tenth).